spamd and Greylisting-Related Resources

If handling email and dealing with email problems is part of your life (or is likely to be in the future), you have probably enjoyed the description of spamd, tarpitting, and greylisting. If you want a little more background information than what you find in the relevant RFCs, the following documents and Web resources provide it.

  • The Greylisting.org website (http://www.greylisting.org) contains a useful collection of greylisting-related articles and other information about greylisting and SMTP in general.

  • Evan Harris's "The Next Step in the Spam Control War: Greylisting" (http://greylisting.org/articles/whitepaper.shtml) is the original greylisting paper.

  • Bob Beck's "OpenBSD spamd—greylisting and beyond" ( ...

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